ICC Meeting:

IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

January 14th 2022 REGULAR MEETING

A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, January 14th, 2022, from the comfort of our own homes and/or offices! The meeting was chaired and called to order by Angel Perez at about 10:00 am.

PRESENT: Twenty-three members participated.

Remote participants: David DePatie, Tammen Chase, Collin Ducote, Benjamin Beach, Dawarren Harrison, Francis Ferguson, Wayne Hyde, Roberet Daffron, DeWayne Hyatt, Dennis Brown, John Macias, Scott Owens, Jorge Hernandez, Philip Lazenby, Dan Cromer, Andrew Carey, Christian Leopold, Joe Gasper, Lee Thrasher, Javier Real, Roderick Tatom, Marion Douglas, Raichel White, Kenneth Schubel, John Wells, Alvaro Ibanez, Guillermo Black, Joel Parlin.

On-site participants: Angel Perez

Recorded Video: Video will be available here after the meeting is completed.

NOTES: Happy New Year!

Report from the chairman

Member news: Kenneth Schubel has left Animal Science and a shout to the Help Desk for assisting them.

Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

December's patches are listed in the link. In addition, Windows 10, version 2004 reached end of servicing on December 14, 2021, and Microsoft's January 2022 Patch Tuesday had Six zero-days, and over 90 vulnerabilities fixed. Please note that each major update has it's own patch notes. A listing of all security updates can be found here.

There were several Microsoft Office updates to the Apple version, as recently as 12/14/2021. Teams is now a part of the Mac Office install. Remote Desktop has also seen a recent update, which is critical considering many people are using RDP to work from their office computers. Keep in mind that RDP will automatically update through the Apple Store app.

Also, if you are using OneDrive on your Mac, you may have to manually update to the latest version. (12/15/21)

Adobe

Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were January 11th, 2022. Please be aware that Adobe ended Flash support on December 31st, 2020.

Java

Java updates were in October 19, 2021 for Java 8U311, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here .

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (November 18th), including security updates and printer driver updates. This includes Catalina, Mojave (EOL November 30, 2021), Big Sur, and the new Monterey MacOS along with iOS updates.

SAS

SAS University Edition recently had an update. Please visit this link. SAS Renewal is also upon us.

JMP

JMP 16 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division. It is free.

Adobe Renewal All Renewal orders must be submitted by Feb 23rd, 2022. Failure to renew your license by Feb 23rd, 2021 may result in the cancellation of the Adobe license.

Adobe is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

Sigmaplot

Sigmaplot 14.5 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS licensing is due for renewal. Please visit this website if you need any info about purchasing a license.

Two-Factor Authentication

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor/support

GatorLinkAccount Management

https://account.it.ufl.edu/

UFIT news

Introducing UF’s Link Shortener Service, here is the link.

Tech Resolutions For a Safer 2022, here is the link.

Videoconferencing and WAN discussion

Videoconferencing topics (previous discussion)

If you have faculty and/or staff that are still using Zoom for UF meetings, please encourage them to move to Teams. I'm not sure how it's been for everyone else, but having to repeat the security options for Zoom is tiring and not necessary when Teams is available.

Policy

Principle of “Least Privilege”- Admin rights Guideline/Policy discussion

Next IT@UF Meeting will be January 27th, 2022 11:00am-12:00pm. You must register to attend.

ITSA Policy and UF IT Policy

I've found it difficult to find the ITSA Computing Policy and the UF IT Policies, so I will provide the links here and keep them here.

ITSA - http://imm.ifas.ufl.edu

UF IT - http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/

There will now be an ICC Policy Page that will keep track of policy and guidelines. These are not strict rules meant to dictate what must be done, but instead, a page of policies that are meant to help keep things running smoothly for each department and ITSA. You can find it here.

ITPAC meeting pending . I will provide an update at our next meeting.

Andrew Carey provided a link to fixing incorrectly named devices. You can find it here.

Projects

Please keep in mind that if you would like a TEAMs demostration, Joe and DeWayne are available to do so. Email either of them for more information. If you have not joined the Jurassic County Extension team yet, I encourage you to do so.

A projects channel was added to the ICC Team. Some have already posted there. I encourage everyone to post and interact.

Operations

IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

Chris and the team have updates for us.

-Any effect from Log4j